gluon: Quick Facts

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Simple diagrams of protons, neutrons, and pions display yellow quark and green antiquark spheres connected by purple ribbon-like gluons, illustrating the internal structure of these atomic particles.

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quark gluino subatomic particle boson Higgs boson weakly interacting massive particle photon magnetic monopole tachyon graviton intermediate vector boson CP violation symmetry quantum field theory

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Nambu, Yoichiro

Yoichiro Nambu

American physicist